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| I have to say, the Wizard origin stuff is much wilder than I expected. To date, the only strips I'd read were him in present day, and didn't impress me in the slightest. But the idea of a revolutionary war super-hero inventing airplanes, radio (and steamboats!) is really stimulating fun. And it's well-handled on top of it. I am digging this. |
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| Oh wait...This is the ancestor of the modern day wizard. Not quite as cool--it'd be more fun having the modern Wiz be a couple hundred years old--but it's still, for 1940, one of the only stories from that era that I'd say, "Hey--read this one!" |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Summer 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit of '76 |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of the Shield (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | When his father is killed by German spies in 1916, young Joe Higgins continues his work to create a formula to give a person super strength and invulnerability. He uses those powers to clear his late father's reputation involving the Black Tom explosion. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; Lt. Tom Higgins (Joe's father, introduction, death); Dick (District Attorney); Hans Fritz (villain, introduction); unnamed Nazi spies (villains) |
| Notes | Story takes place chronologically before Pep Comics #1. |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of the Shield: Part 2 (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe Higgins joins the F.B.I and goes on his first case to rescue John Ingot from kidnappers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; John Ingot (introduction); Ruby Ingot (John's daughter, introduction); unnamed company guards (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Next chronological Shield appearance is in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #1 (January 1940). |
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| Comic Story | Lou Zefke's Murder Syndicate (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe Higgins and Ju Ju Watson are sent to investigate why all the witnesses in Lou Zefke's trial end up dead. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; unnamed District Attorney; unnamed Mayor; Ilia Morgan (introduction); Ilia's father (death); Lou Zefke (villain, introduction); unnamed lawyer for Zefke (villain) |
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| Notes | Shows the cover of Pep Comics #7. |
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| Text Story | The Vampire Murders (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Shield fights a vampire. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; John Bascom; Jean Bascom |
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| Comic Story | The Historical Story of Blane Whitney (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of the first Wizard who fought in the Revolutionary War. |
| Content | Genre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: John Whitney (Blane's father, death); Mary Whitney (Blane's mother); Grover Whitney (Blane's brother); General George Washington; Paul Revere; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; Ezra Sellers (villain, introduction); the Indians (villains); the British (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Battle of Bunker Hill (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Wizard helps out with several battles of the Revolutionary War. |
| Content | Genre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: General George Washington; Nathan Hale; James Blane (Blane's uncle, introduction); The British (villains); General Rahl; Ezra Sellers |
| Notes | All stories take place during the Revolutionary War. |
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| Comic Story | The Treason of Benedict Arnold (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Wizard helps with more battles in the Revolutionary War. |
| Content | Genre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: General George Washington; Colonel Benedict Arnold (villain); the British (villains); Ezra Sellers (villain, death); General Henry Cornwallis (villain); Major John Andre (villain, introduction); Mad Anthony Wayne; General Gates; Admiral De Grasse |
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| Notes | Shows the cover of Top-Notch Comics #8. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Remington Rand Inc.
Back cover. |
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